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My name is Konda Luckau. I have been long arm quilting for many years, and now I am writing pattern books. This started when I fell in love with charm packs a few years ago. I am sure many of you can relate. Most of my patterns are written for charm squares (except you can make your own charm squares out of layer cakes, fat quarters, yardage, or scraps). Check out my books at my website:
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Monday, March 15, 2010

Block 2 or Can't Make Just One!

This block was so fun that I couldn't make just one -- I made two! BUT you will see them in a minute.

First, meet our block designer for today, April Mazzoleni! April is a friend of mine. She is also a quiltmaker with a great eye for design. Check out her blog, you will see what I mean. Here's April. . . .

Once all of my kids were school aged, I had found myself at home with a lot of time on my hands. Too long to just sit around and wait for everyone to get home and not long enough to get a real job...plus I had already done the real job thing for 15 years and just couldn't go back. I dusted off the sewing machine that my parents gave me when I turned 18 and started sewing. With my mom two states away and no one around to help, I jumped right in. Sewing has changed my life in sew many ways. It's given me a creative outlet, provided me with an income and has helped me to make many friends along the way.

For me blogging, sewing and friends have gone hand in hand. I started blogging about 2 years ago now and love it. It's not about the number of visitors or the number of comments (although comments are always fun to read) it's more of being part of a community, keeping connected and sharing that part of myself with family and friends.

While I've made a lot of original quilts, I haven't published many patterns. With the encouragement of friends, I'm throwing my hat in the ring. My first pattern for a quilted version of a Quiet Book is now available for purchase at woodchesters.etsy.com.

Besides my love of quilts, my other passion in sewing is my cloth mama pads. While my initial reaction to cloth pads was - Yuck! - something about them kept tugging at me. I finally made up a few, fell in love with them and wanted to share them with the world :) Besides selling them at my etsy shop aprilmdesigns.etsy.com, I also want to help make people aware of the health benefits associated with them. You can find all of that info at my website http://www.clothmamapads.com/. I'm saving my scraps to make a cloth mama pad quilt one day. The best of both worlds!

Here are the two blocks I made using April's pattern. First, I made the design in my Attitude Girls jelly roll. It turned out, of course, very high contrast because Attitude Girls has, well, attitude.

So I had to make one with low contrast. I found over half a Swanky jelly roll sitting around with nothing to do. I decided to let my Swanky jelly roll join in the fun. We will see how far she makes it. The center square is a pink with white dot print that is going to be my background fabric for this one.

My apologies for these blocks. They have not received their final pressing yet. I know I shouldn't let them be seen this way. Sorry. Are the quilt police going to call me in for questioning?

Okay, so a couple other items of business. I type these up Saturday night so they will post before I can get to the computer Monday morning. The link will be on the main page shortly.

Second, the drawing. Yeah!!!! Here's the deal:Sew, sew, sew, you have today to finish block 1!

Late tonight (Mountain Daylight Savings Time -- I do not like daylight savings time by the way -- too much information -- oops!) I will post my two new blocks on Flickr. When these two blocks are posted, every block before my blocks are entered into the random drawing for two fabulous prizes that will be announced tomorrow.

Question: What about the speed demons who finish Block 2 before I get my Block 2 posted?Answer: Speed Demons, you have a choice to make. If you post your block, you will have two chances in tomorrows drawing because you will have two blocks posted. Or you can wait until after I post mine to be entered into the next drawing. I will leave the decision to each of you.

I absolutely LOVED the first block and am looking forward to this 2nd block, too. I think I like your high contrast (1st) block better...but just because I like striking fabrics. They're both very nice! Thanks for hosting this.

I haven't made my blocks yet, because of other obligations; but next week, I should be free to join in! I can't wait! I did buy myself some background fabric....I vowed to use all stash, but I just couldn't help myself....:)

Oh, I can't wait to get started on this second block! It's just as cute as the first one - this is so much fun! Thanks so much for doing this for all of us! BTW, the Quilt Police don't matter! It's like Dr. Seuss says - "Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind"! Julie

Dianne said... Thankyou for this great project. I loved doing my first block in japanese fabrics collected and used in other quilts. Can I ask how wide the sashings etc are as I need to set aside 10 strips for them from a contrast that isn't quite enough (I have other fabrics to use for some blocks but hope to leave the japanese print background for the between strips) I don't have a blog but this is a fun project a few of are really enjoying. Thanks